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F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were two of the finest writers of this century and two of the most distinctively American voices of 20th century literature as well. The paper shows that although their styles were radically different, they both used their fiction to depict their own experiences in often barely fictionalized form. They also used their fiction, and especially their short stories, to advance their philosophies. The paper shows that, ironically, although each attempted to create a voice and a fictional persona that was highly individual and unique, each came to be seen as the voice of a generation and so at least in some ways lost their individuality. The paper examines how the two writers blended life and fiction in their works.

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"Both of these authors incorporated their own experiences and their own moral and ethical perspectives into their works. This statement is arguably true of all writers at least within Western traditions of literature, but some writers are better at disguising what it is in their own lives that they have included in their literary offspring. Neither Hemingway nor Fitzgerald saw the need to do this, for they believed that the kinds of lives they led could and should be held up as an example of the ways people should live. Hemingway wanted to show the world how personal and physical courage defined what a man should and must be, while Fitzgerald " once the sort of glittering, cynical and irresponsible Jazz Age soigne that he so often wrote about " was also (at least later in life) a moralist desperate to infuse his stories, his own life, and the life of his times with the sense that something was desperately wrong."

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